Sea of Thieves has finally arrived so let’s have a look at latest Xbox One / Windows exclusive game and compare it to E3 2015 reveal gameplay trailer.
How many differences can you spot?
Please note it was necessary to adjust speed of retail footage for this comparison purpose – THERE WAS NO animation drops on Xbox One X (at least I didn’t encounter any)

I wish to thank Dziki Prosiak for enormous help with making this video. Cheers to you man!

43 Comments

looks the same apart from the the lighting and shadows which means one thing the sun is in a different position…you know that thing that happens in the sky the big round things moves up and down in a day and night cycle that changes the lighting and shadows…unless this is recorded at the EXACT time of in game day that the e3 demos was it cant be compared

goes into his display settings as he always does when playing his computer

leans over a bit from his desk, looking at the console casuals

"Oh I'm sorry, I didn't see you there… Just let me finish tweaking the graphic setting to fit my rig.. Or at the very least look through all the coding , and find out how to actually make it look like that"

I’ve played the beta. It’s beautiful visually and can be very impressive, specially the scale of things (like water physics interactions, game atmosphere, lighting, etc). I recall in a moment my ship sank after hitting a big mountain or something and when the waves came over I was under water and watched the ship vanishing in the deep, it felt impressive. Me and the other player survived. Unfortunately, I couldn’t understand at all what this game is about. No missions, no story structure, but I never played the final version, though. Maybe someday, it’s fun.

Well of course live gameplay wont match the E3 trailer, the trailer was a pre rendered section of the map, they didnt have the entire map loaded, not that it would make a difference since the map is as bare as the skeleton in the trailer as well as the gameplay.